The official ship docked outside the city of Yangzhou, and many officials, gentry, and people watched from afar.

The news that Yuan Zhanggong had arrested the emperor had been spread by the officials.

People were surprised and relieved at the same time. When they heard that the boat was coming, they rushed to tell each other, and ran to the river to watch the excitement.

"Alas, this time Zhu Xianggong is in a big disaster!" Zheng Lan frowned.

Zheng Fatzi said: "Weng Weng, although I am very stupid, Zhu Xianggong is a smart person. I all know that this is a disaster, how can Zhu Xianggong not know? He will have a solution. ”

Zheng Lan shook his head: "No matter what, and look at it again, the young lady will not be sent to Tokyo for the time being, for fear of being implicated by his Zhu family's father and son." ”

Zheng Hong disagreed, and said: "Who in Yangzhou doesn't know that my family and Daming Village are doing business? It is the method of roasting tea, Zhu Xianggong taught it to my family. If something really happens, can my family escape? There will be officials and businessmen who will take advantage of the opportunity to make false accusations and convict usants, so as to rob our family's business. At this time, I sent my little sister to Tokyo and married Da Lang as a concubine, which showed that my family was sincere. If he waits until next year and then climbs that wealth, what will Zhu Dalang think in his heart? ”

Zheng Lan hesitated, but still insisted on his opinion: "Don't take risks." ”

"Weng Weng!" Zheng Hong was a little anxious.

Zheng Lan said: "Don't say it again. ”

Zheng Hong really wanted to say "the shaft is not enough and conspiracy", but this shaft is his own grandfather, and it is really difficult to scold.

Zheng Fatzi searched his intestines and scraped his stomach to sort out the wording, and asked: "Weng Weng, how is Zhu Xianggong a person?" ”

Zheng Lan said: "It's good. ”

Zheng Fatzi used all his life's learning and elaborated carefully: "Zhu Xianggong recruited the poor, distributed land, and lent seeds, this is benevolence. Sweet potato corn has a high yield, but it is willing to promote the counties of the state capital, which is also benevolent. The method of roasting tea can make ten thousand gold, but I keep my promise and teach it to my family this year, which is righteousness. The governor and judge of Yangzhou, the magistrate and the chief secretary of Xixiang, as well as the head of Min Shan of the academy, and Mr. Confucian Chen, all admired Zhu Xianggong. So many smart people admire him, can Zhu Xianggong not be smart? This is wisdom. Such a person, detaining a castration, will there be no way at all? ”

This discussion is not very exciting and rigorous, but it still makes Zheng Lan a little moved.

However, Zheng Lan still didn't want to bet: "Our family has learned to fry tea, and it will inevitably become richer and richer in the future." It is said that the official family favors the eunuchs, and Zhu Xianggong arrested the eunuchs, most of them were going to set himself on fire, and the Zheng family must not be involved. ”

Zheng Fatzi was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood, and asked again: "Weng Weng, how many years has Yangzhou been a jinshi?" ”

Zheng Lan said: "Sometimes it is ten years, sometimes it is twenty or thirty years. ”

Zheng Fatzi said: "There are three Jinshi this year, if you wait for the next time, won't you have to wait for twenty or thirty years?" If the Zheng family wants to marry a non-commissioned officer in the future, they can only cling to other places. How many of those foreign non-commissioned officers are willing to marry businessmen? said that the son of Li Tongju, the young lady married to do the continuation, and everyone else refused! If you want to marry, you can only marry our girl and be a concubine. Can marrying the young and unmarried Zhu Dalang as a concubine be the same as marrying a foreign official as a concubine? Without the protection of the officials, can our Zheng family's business be smooth sailing? ”

Zheng Lan was even more hesitant, and couldn't get an idea for a while.

Of course, he understands what his grandson said, but when people get older, they tend to be conservative, and they are in a dilemma if they think too much.

Zheng Lan thought about it repeatedly, took her granddaughter's birthday, and ran to find the goddess in the city for divination.

Don't think it's ridiculous, divination in the Northern Song Dynasty was too popular.

According to Wang Anshi's "Bianshuo", only in and around Tokyo, there are more than 10,000 people who make a living by divination.

Zheng Lan is looking for the goddess Zigu, which belongs to a mainstream divination technique in the Song Dynasty.

Zigu was originally a concubine in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was jealous of her wife, and was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first month. God had mercy and named Zigu the god of the toilet, also known as the "three girls in the pit".

During the Tang and Song dynasties, people would welcome the toilet god during the Lantern Festival.

On the day before the festival, prepare the dung basket, put a ring on the dung basket hairpin, and put it next to the toilet to worship. You also have to burn incense and candles, and children come to worship, so that you can be blessed by Zigu, and you will not fall into the dung pit and drown in the future.

Now Zigu has evolved, not only the god of toilets, but also the god of divination, calligraphy, and pitching.

Zigu divination has two business specializations:

First, the woman asked for news from her sweetheart; The second is that the scholar asked if he could pass the imperial examination.

It has the flavor of the god of women and the god of imperial examinations.

Even, there are scholars who ask Zigu which question to take before the imperial examination......

saw Zheng Lan with a slave and followed the goddess to the toilet.

The goddess is dressed in a lot of plants and vines, and she looks a little druid just by looking at her dress.

She was holding a dustpan in her hand, which was Zigu's skirt. Then write down the requested information on a piece of paper and insert it on the top of the dustpan with a pen and paper.

The two boys stepped forward to hold the dustpan, and the goddess began to invite Zigu to come up.

After a seizure-like tremble, Zi Gu finally got on and said in a solemn tone, "Who is coming?" ”

Zheng Lan hurriedly replied: "Purple girl, I am Zheng Lan, a businessman from Yangzhou." ”

Zigu said: "I already know what you are asking for. ”

Zheng Lan asked, "Should I marry my granddaughter?" ”

Zigu said: "This matter is extraordinary, and the secret of heaven must not be revealed. ”

Zheng Lan asked the slave to take out a few strings of money and put them in front of the dustpan: "Please ask the purple girl to reveal one or two." ”

Zigu is also literate, and actually began to recite poems: "For the infinite beauty of the cloud screen, Fengcheng is afraid of the spring night." ”

Zheng Lan didn't understand, and hurriedly asked, "How do you interpret these two sentences?" ”

The goddess trembled, and Zigu had already left.

Zheng Lan asked the goddess again: "For the infinite beauty of the cloud screen, Fengcheng ...... Fengcheng ...... How does this work? ”

The goddess added the last two sentences: "Marrying a golden beetle son-in-law for no reason disappoints the early dynasty of the incense family." Congratulations to the old official Zheng, the little lady of the Zheng family has a lot of wealth, and the husband is afraid that he will be able to visit the cabinet in the future. ”

"Really?" Zheng Lan was overjoyed.

He had already believed three points, because he did not reveal more information and did not say who he wanted to marry his granddaughter.

That sentence of going to the pavilion to pay respects to the prime minister, most of them are fulfilled by today's science and technology exploration of Hualang!

Zheng Lan gave some money and said goodbye to the goddess with a smile on her face.

Back home, Zheng Lan called her grandson: "Take the young lady, go to the city to board the boat immediately, and bring some gold collars for makeup." Just go with Zhu Xianggong, don't say anything else, just take the young lady to Tokyo to visit relatives. ”

Zheng Yuanyi was pulled into the carriage with a twist and pinch, quite reluctant in her heart, but she was a little expectant.

Her personal maid also walked along.

There were also two sturdy young women, the Zheng family's female sumo wrestlers, who were also on their way to Tokyo.

It can be seen that Zheng Lan really loves her granddaughter, and she is also equipped with two thugs to prevent being bullied by her wife in the future.

There are also two sturdy men, who are also sumo wrestlers, who serve as Zheng Hong's bodyguards. There were four more house slaves, who went to Tokyo together and obeyed Zheng Hong's call at any time.

The official ship is shopping for goods and will not leave until dawn tomorrow.

Zheng Fatzi took his sister and asked to board the ship in the evening.

"Where are you going?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zheng Hong said: "I went to Tokyo to visit my family. ”

Zhu Guoxiang frowned, didn't think much about it, and just went out together.

The next day, we set off early in the morning.

When passing through Xingyuan Mansion, Zhu Guoxiang took the gold and silver and went to return it to the transfer envoy and other officials.

Carrying the Ganoderma lucidum as a signboard, he took out the receipt of the Yangzhou official, and asked the officials of Xingyuan Mansion to also put the receipt.

Keep following the water until you can no longer sail on the boat.

Zhu Guoxiang brought the bound eunuchs and forbidden soldiers ashore, and ordered: "Except for Fang Mao, all the rest are loosened!" ”

Before they could loosen their ties, they just tore off the rags in their mouths, and the guys screamed.

Zhu Guoxiang turned a deaf ear, so Deng Chun took out the Ganoderma lucidum and asked, "What is this?" ”

There was more than one eunuch, and a young eunuch said, "This is a thousand...... Millennial Ganoderma lucidum? ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "How can it be more than a thousand years? There are three years left, which is the 10,000-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and mortals can eat it without disease and disaster, and their youth will last forever! I had planned to dedicate it to the government family in three years. Alas...... You pushed too quickly, ruined the 10,000-year-old Dao of Lingzhi, and the elixir of immortality was gone. ”

Several little eunuchs were all dumbfounded, no matter whether this was true or not, if it was known by the officials, it would definitely be true.

Fang Mao is dead!

The eunuchs knelt on the ground together: "The husband saved my life, it was all the party who forced the minister, and it had nothing to do with us!" ”

The soldiers of the forbidden army also knelt down and cried for Zhu Guoxiang's help, they were afraid that the emperor would anger everyone.

Zhu Guoxiang was noncommittal, and asked people to bring tea, and said: "I have developed a kind of black tea, which is only a few hundred catties at present, and it has never been sold in the market. Black tea, along with Ganoderma lucidum, is to be offered to the official family. There are not enough people, so they have to help carry tea, and each person will send ten catties as a reward for moving tea. ”

Tea for the emperor?

Ten pounds per person?

The mood of the eunuchs and the forbidden army was like a roller coaster.

Zhu Guoxiang is willing to send tea, so he will definitely not embarrass them.

Once the emperor loves to drink this tea, the price will definitely skyrocket, and each of them can make a fortune with ten catties of black tea in their hands.

The forbidden soldiers had no psychological burden, and hurriedly shouted: "We listen to Zhu Xianggong, it's all that Fang Mao is making trouble!" ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "This Fang Mao not only asked for bribes along the way, but also wanted to ask for gold and silver when he arrived in Daming Village. I heard that there is a 10,000-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and I want to cut off a piece and take it myself, so you can only tie him up first! ”

"That's right, this Fang Mao wolf is ambitious, and he actually wants to live forever." One of the eunuchs immediately chimed in.

Another eunuch said: "Zhu Xianggong said that the Lingzhi will have three years to become an immortal elixir. Fang Mao refused to wait, and he didn't know that he would go back to report to the official's house, so he forced Zhu Xianggong to pick the Ganoderma lucidum in advance! ”

Another eunuch said: "Fang Mao is still disrespectful to the official family, let's urge him to hurry, don't delay the official family's errand." But he said that the official family's errand is not in a hurry, and it is the right way to get more gold and silver. He also said that after leaving Tokyo, the official family is blind and deaf, and no matter what we do, we are not afraid that the official family will know. ”

A soldier of the forbidden army said: "Fang Mao, when he plans to go back, he asks for Yangzhou specialties to be taken to Tokyo for sale, and he doesn't remember that the official told him to go back quickly!" ”

Another eunuch said: "Fang Mao also told us that the official family looked away and said that Zhu Xianggong must be swaggering and cheating." He didn't think about being ordered to conquer, and planned to tie up Zhu Xianggong and go to Tokyo. ”

These guys, every word you say and I say, are all accusing Fang Mao'an.

And the more he talked about it, the more outrageous it became, and there was even a forbidden army, angrily scolding Fang Mao for bullying men and women, and forcing women from good families to be concubines.

If anything, Fang Mao did say.

There are some things that Fang Mao has indeed done.

But most of it is made up, anyway, the worse Fang Mao is, the better.

Fang Mao stuffed rags in his mouth and lay on the ground tied up. His mouth was full of retorts, his body twisted and turned, but he couldn't struggle at all, and in the end he could only cry vigorously.

Zheng Hong witnessed the whole process, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Zhu Xianggong is really extraordinary, the means of reversing black and white have been perfected!" ”

Rest for the night and walk away.

The eunuchs and the soldiers of the forbidden army, all volunteered to carry tea and coolies, and happily advanced along the Bao Slope Road, and it seemed that they had become Zhu Guoxiang's subordinates.

(End of chapter)